Everything We Know About BTS’ Anthology Album PROOF (So Far)

Mary Siroky
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All right, ARMY, buckle up, because we have plenty of details to unpack together.

After initially confirming new music on June 10th at the closing night of their Las Vegas shows, BTS have been slowly rolling out details for the upcoming album, PROOF. This now includes the fact that PROOF will be an anthology album, chronicling BTS’ nine (!) years of music, and will include a mix of existing favorites and brand new music.

The anthology record will be broken into three parts, arriving as three disks in physical form. Pre-orders are now open on BTS and management company HYBE’s proprietary communication platform, Weverse.

The announcement of an anthology album led fans to speculate that the collection, which required the difficult task of working through BTS’ enormously stacked discography, may also include remasters or previously unreleased versions of fan favorites, something that has now been confirmed.

Here’s everything we know about PROOF so far, including a guide to each of the three disks.

The Release Date

PROOF will be released worldwide on June 10th, 2022. This timing pins the album three days before June 13th, when BTS will celebrate their 9th anniversary as a group. June 13th annually includes a celebration known as FESTA.

The Title and Lead Single

PROOF is a play on the group’s early “bulletproof” concept and slogan, “We Are Bulletproof.” When the initial announcement was made in Las Vegas, fans were treated to a video flashing through different eras in BTS’ career over the past nine years, concluding with the text fading to just the word PROOF.

The lead single for the album is titled “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment),” and will be released in conjunction with the album on June 10th. The title seems to refer to The Most Beautiful Moment In Life series, a trio of BTS albums often collectively referred to as the HYYH era (an acronym of the Korean translation, “Hwa Yong Yeon Hwa).”

Artwork

Concept photos have yet to be released that include the members themselves — the comeback timeline shared by BIG HIT MUSIC indicates that those will begin to be shared beginning May 28th — and the images for the album box set and lead single so far only include the BTS logo.

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CD Breakdown and Guide

CD 1: BTS’ Story

The first disk begins with a remastered version of “Born Singer,” an unofficial release from when BTS debuted in 2013. Originally an interpolation of a track by J. Cole, the updated version will be particularly poignant, as it was written as a reflection of the group’s feelings immediately post-debut. Here, nearly a decade later, the song will be followed by many of the group’s lead singles like “ON,” “Boy with Luv feat. Halsey,” and “Spring Day,” and record-breaking hits like “Dynamite,” “Life Goes On,” and “Butter.” Disk 1 concludes with new single, “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment).”

CD 1 Track List:
01. Born Singer
02. No More Dream
03. N.O
04. Boy In Luv
05. Danger
06. I NEED U
07. RUN
08. Burning Up (FIRE)
09.Blood Sweat & Tears
10. Spring Day
11. DNA
12. FAKE LOVE
13. IDOL
14. Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey)
15. ON
16. Dynamite
17. Life Goes On
18. Butter
19. Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)

CD 2: Solo Tracks and Sub-Units

When the track list for CD 2 was revealed on social media earlier this week, ARMY speculated that each member selected one solo song and one subunit, another theory that has since been confirmed by BIG HIT MUSIC. The track list runs in what’s called “fan chant order,” aka the structure the members’ names run in during concerts. Here’s the track list broken down by member selections, plus another new track, called “Run BTS.”

CD 2 Track List:
01. Run BTS

RM:
02. Intro: Persona
03. Stay

Jin:
04. Moon
05. Jamais Vu

Suga:
06. Trivia 轉 : Seesaw
07. BTS Cypher PT.3 : KILLER (Feat. Supreme Boi)

J-Hope:
08. Outro : Ego
09. Her

Jimin:
10. Filter
11. Friends

V:
12. Singularity
13. 00:00 (Zero O’Clock)

Jungkook
14. Euphoria
05. Dimple

CD 3: For ARMY

All right, friends — with a track list that was revealed today, May 10th, CD 3 is where things get wild. Stacked with demos and new versions of beloved tracks, CD 3 is a dream come true for ARMYs across all eras. Tucked between bangers like the long-awaited demo versions of “Boy In Luv” and “Boyz with Fun” are two more new tracks, “Quotation Mark” and “Young Love.”

On Suga’s 2016 mixtape under moniker Agust D, he released a track called “Tony Montana” — then, one fateful evening in 2017, he brought out Jimin to share the stage for a live performance of the song. For years, fans have been begging for an official studio release of the joint version, and this dream will finally come true on June 10th.

The album concludes with another new song, titled “For Youth,” and described as a love letter to the fans. It’s important to note that “Young Love” and “Quotation Mark” will only appear on the physical form of the album, so dust off the CD player and dig out the walkman. We’ve got a whopping 48 songs to listen to on June 10th.

CD 3 Track List:
01. Jump (Demo Ver.)
02. Young Love
03. Boy In Luv (Demo Ver.)
04. Quotation Mark
05. I NEED U (Demo Ver.)
06. Boyz with Fun (Demo Ver.)
07. Tony Montana (with Jimin)
08. Young Forever (RM Demo Ver.)
09. Spring Day (V Demo Ver)
10. DNA (j-hope Demo Ver.)
11. Epiphany (Jin Demo Ver.)
12. Seesaw (Demo Ver.)
13. Still With You (Acapella)
14. For Youth

Everything We Know About BTS’ Anthology Album PROOF (So Far)
Mary Siroky

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